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Manage projects of all sizes how you want. Great for personal to-do lists, project milestones, team priorities and launch plans.
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A metadevice consists of one or more devices (slices). It can be expanded by adding slices. Then, it can be grown to fill a larger space while the file system is in use.
However, not all UNIX file systems (UFS) can be expanded this way. The conca…

FreeBSD on EC2
FreeBSD (https://www.freebsd.org) is a robust Unix-like operating system that has been around for many years. FreeBSD is available on Amazon EC2 through Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) provided by FreeBSD developer and security office…

Learn several ways to interact with files and get file information from the bash shell.
ls lists the contents of a directory: Using the -a flag displays hidden files: Using the -l flag formats the output in a long list: The file command gives us mor…